After receiving an overwhelming response for his directorial debut, Babli Bouncer, filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar is back with India Lockdown, a hard-hitting film that will showcase the plight of people amidst lockdown during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020.
The film, starring Shweta Basu Prasad, Sai Tamhankar, Prateik Babbar, Aahana Kumra, and Prakash Belawadi, among others, is releasing on 2 December. It’s backed by Jayantilal Gada of PEN Studios, Madhur Bhandarkar’s Bhandarkar Entertainment, and Pranav Jain’s P J Motion Pictures.
The filmmaker said, “There is no better reward than your work being liked and recognised by audiences and critics.” I am happy with all the love people have responded with; my social media timeline is flooded with messages from people all across the country who saw the family entertainer Babli Bouncer. I hope we get the same love for India Lockdown too.
Ask him if he would have liked the films to be released in theaters. Bhandarkar says, “Babli Bouncer was conceived with Disney Hotstar and Junglee Pictures as an OTT film. We knew this would be the root we would take even before the India Lockdown.”Both the films were shot during the pandemic with all protocols and restrictions in place.”
India Lockdown premieres on Zee5 on 2 December.